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...rickshaws have become increasingly common in some of Western Europe's major metropolises. First introduced in the West in the '90s as an environmentally friendly novelty, they have since become a fun way to cover short distances in crowded neighborhoods. While unlikely to become an everyday form of commuter transport, in places like Paris, London and Groningen in the Netherlands, rickshaws-technically known as pedicabs or trishaws, since the drivers are cycling, not running-hold their own in tourist traffic against more conventional vehicles. "For a night on the town it's a bit of a lark," says a London...
Luberoff cited a 1992 article in the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy that found a 10 percent fare increase typically leads to a 5 percent decrease in patronage...
...arrest by U.S. forces. A large crowd of Iraqis mills outside it. Private First Class Jim Beverly, 19, and Private Orion Jenks, 22, stand in the bed of the convoy's second vehicle, a roofless high-back humvee, which resembles a large pickup truck and is generally used to transport troops. Also riding in the back are two TIME journalists. As the convoy begins moving again, Jenks and Beverly chat casually and laugh. Sergeant Ronald Buxton, who is riding shotgun in the cab of the high-back, whips around. "I don't care if you joke or if you smoke...
...decades floated above a conflict over authorship. Clement Clarke Moore has been credited with writing the story, but there are those who believe that the poet and writer Henry Livingston Jr. is the true author. What has never been at issue is the ability of the verses to transport the masses, long before The Polar Express provided a modern-day rival...
...several bombings in the south Sulawesi city of Makassar in December 2002. Suryadi told police he spent several years guiding militants from a JI-affiliated group in Makassar to Mindanao, and in mid-2001 spent a month living at the school along with several of his charges while awaiting transport...